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Alex M
Wed Jul 18 2012, 09:17PM Print
Alex M Registered Member #3943 Joined: Sun Jun 12 2011, 05:24PM
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Thought many of you would enjoy this one/find it interesting Link2

Planes made using carbon fibre rather than metal and how they will protect against lighting strikes, with some high voltage high current strike testing.
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Tetris
Thu Jul 19 2012, 09:26PM
Tetris Registered Member #4016 Joined: Thu Jul 21 2011, 01:52AM
Location: Gainesville, FL
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Ahaha! That's awesome! While it may lose a tiny bit of structural integrity if a carbon fiber + metal plane got hit by lightning, I guess the costs are balanced for replacement of that part vs. the manufacturing costs of airplanes.
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Steve Conner
Fri Jul 20 2012, 06:48AM
Steve Conner Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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What did the poor teapot do to deserve that? :/
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Alex M
Sat Jul 21 2012, 12:26AM
Alex M Registered Member #3943 Joined: Sun Jun 12 2011, 05:24PM
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Steve Conner wrote ...

What did the poor teapot do to deserve that? :/

It made the tea taste sour, so it had to go cheesey
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Ben Solon
Mon Jul 23 2012, 09:14PM
Ben Solon Registered Member #3900 Joined: Thu May 19 2011, 08:28PM
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Kinda makes me want to build a lighting simulation chamber wink a marx with some decent caps would be a bugs amount of fun to play with...

But I really like the way that they go about that. It could be improved though. You dont need a tightly woven layer of metal to achieve the same effect; it may be more efficient to just use some sort of loose grid of slightly thicker wire.
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ConKbot of Doom
Mon Jul 23 2012, 10:17PM
ConKbot of Doom Registered Member #509 Joined: Sat Feb 10 2007, 07:02AM
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Old news for me!

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I used to work at the plant making this stuff. I worked on the aluminum honeycomb, and occasionally the non metalic honeycomb CNC mill facilities, not the strike grid or honeycomb production area. Ive made my share of honeycomb cores for airbus airliner control surfaces.
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